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 450 filaments inserted (in several parcels) into the calyx.—To this Order Professor Willdenow properly refers Melaleuca, ''Exot. Bot. t. 34—36, 55, 56, which had previously stood in Polyandria, botanists having only considered number and not insertion in the Orders of Polyadelphia, whence a double mistake has arisen, concerning Citrus on the one hand, and Melaleuca'' on the other.

3. Polyandria. Stamens very numerous, unconnected with the calyx. This Order consists of several genera. The most remarkable is Hypericum, ''Engl. Bot. t.'' 109, 1225—1227 &c., whose stamens are united into 3 or 5 parcels, corresponding with the number of its styles. Munchhausia is a Lagerstromia, nor does it appear to be polyadelphous at all. Linnæus seems to have intended bringing Thea into this Order.

19. Syngenesia. Anthers united into a tube. Flowers compound. Orders 5.

This being truly a natural Class, its Orders are most of them equally so, though